Summary:
He was six when his mother died, seven when Master found him, ten when he found out about the birthright he inherited from his mother, thirteen when he stumbled upon the Mafia, and fourteen when a pest came along and claimed he was now a mafia boss.
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Disclaimer: I don't own KHR and never will. This wonderful story right here you may ask? 'Tis just a fanfic.
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Tsuna leaves a note.
He grabs his mother's credit cards, bank account information, cookbook, and her laptop. He puts it in his bag with his clothes, cleans the house one last time and walks out of the house of memories. One that has long shattered.
He walks, and walk, and walks, and walks, and walks, and walks.
He soon finds himself in the middle of a forest, simply lying there.
That's when Master's spirit appears.
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Speranza, she was called. Now titled: Arcobaleno of the Moon. Cursed to forever wield moon flames. Flames that should never run out, or they would but that bastard won't leave her and her family in peace.
'Speranza' she thinks bitterly, 'f*cking hope'.
She misses her sister's great-granddaughter, Nana. She always had life in her and gave Speranza some much-needed light. She was her sun, her little Do.
She taught Nana how to use her flames. Her Moon Flames.
These flames you didn't keep for life, no. Once you give birth to a child they are given these flames and they still have a chance of developing their own flames. Then they can use them to either bring light and hope to the trapped or taunt them. The downsides to these extremely powerful flames are that they only exist in one bloodline and males go through a very painful process when their child is being born as the flames are being forced out of their body.
So when her little Do's son calls, voice steady, speaking Italian asking for Mama's Master, she realizes her little Do has had a child.
But why isn't Nana calling instead then?
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In the forest,
in the darkest grove,
is where you shall find,
a spirit that glows,
follow it,
and you shall see,
your Mama's dearest Master,
right in front of thee.
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Tsuna looks again as the poem that was repeated to him relentlessly with no explanation. 'The darkest grove?'
He heads deeper in and trips. He moans and goes to get back up but freezes upon the sight of a floating white silhouette, which he can see glowing through the trees. He gets up and runs forward it and stops a distance away. It begins to move. He follows.
Slowly, but steadily Tsuna realized that the slope in which he is climbing is getting steeper. Not rock-climbing steep or you-can-side-down-it-easily steep, but if-you-wanna-ride-a-bike-up-this-then-have-fun steep.
The spirit soon goes into a cave, he follows, a bit more nervous than before, but still going. Eventually, in the distance, Tsuna could see glowing crystals hanging from the ceiling. They grow more often and soon the spirit disappears, leaving him at a blank stone wall.
He turns and looks around, nervous and anxious. The first he's been for a while. When suddenly the stone wall splits into four separate parts, leaving a baby with Black hair and honey brown eyes with dashes of pure white in them standing there. A blinding white pacifier lays upon her white and gold kimono. The baby stares at him and then looks up and around, sadness imminent in her eyes.
"Tsunayoshi right?" A soft, sweet, gentle voice speaks up. Tsuna blinks in a daze, enchanted by the baby's voice before nodding.
"I am your Mama's master. Where is your Mama?" The baby says approaching the child slowly.
"Mama's left so Papa will come, but Papa hasn't come. Mama wrote down to call you if a man named Ietmistu has found out yet."
Speranza's heart tightens, she killed herself. Her little Do killed herself.
After a few moments of stillness, Speranza looks back into young Tsunayoshi's eyes. "Call me Master. I'll give you a home."
Tsuna's heart cries in relief. "Arigato! Thanks!" he says breaking out of Italian and into Japanese for a word.
Speranza nods and motions the child in, the child following.
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When Tsuna walked into his new room he expected dust, dirt, and grime everywhere. To his surprise it was spotless. He easily put his clothes and other items away.
He stopped for a bit outside his room to just admire Master's home.
A giant clock hanging on one wall while a tower that connects to the ceiling produces light and what master said was 'Energy' or 'Electricity'. sit in the center. It works by having a highly magnetized crystal spin around of iron rods, which produced massive amounts of energy. Or so Master said.
Then in between those two is a giant circular glass window/dome. Master said it's for the light and not to worry, no one can even see us or find the window despite its size. She mumbled something about nebbia or in other words, fog.
Fog?
Tsuna dismissed it and began to explore.
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Eventually, Tsuna headed out of his room to make dinner only to be surprised to find Indian-style curry on the table, hot and ready to eat. Master sits there waiting for him. He nods, surprised and sits down.
They eat in silence.
It gets awkward so Tsuna decides to ask Master some questions.
"Master."
"Hm? Yes, Tsunayoshi?"
"What does Varia-quality mean?"
Speranza pauses. 'Ah'. She thinks 'That little twat actually joined the Varia, no one outside of Varia know exactly how strong you need to be to join.'. She smiles self-loathingly, 'She did something fun then, at least.'
"First, you need to know what Varia is." Tsuna nods, and she continues "Varia is an organization both independent and dependent on another organization, Vongola. Varia-quality means you have the capability of joining the Varia, which is extremely hard to do. You'd need to know at least seven languages, how to fight very well, and have the coldness and/or mental strength to kill a person."
Tsuna's eyes widen "Kill a person?"
"The Varia is an organization dedicated to organized killing. You pay a fee, give them a photo, some information perhaps, and the person you ordered dead will be a simple memory within days."
"Oh." Tsuna looked down. He was expecting something else.
He looks back up. "Mama knew how to fight? I've been trying to learn but I gained nothing out of it."
"I was simply planning on teaching things related to school to you, child, but if you desire so I can make you better then Varia-quality." His eyes widened, "Really?!" She smiles inwardly.
"Yes"
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They put the bowls in the sink and headed down the path of the massive-cave-turned-hideout. Speranza made her way down the path and after a few turns and a couple trips on Tsuna's end, made their way to the training room. The room wasn't anything impressive. It was the size of a school's gym or maybe a cafeteria, but nothing less. The walls are flame-proof to hell and back meaning even if the Vindice and their insanely over-powered flames decided to go on a rampage in there, everything would be intact and taunt them.
She turned around once she reached the center of the room and ordered tsuna to sit. He complied, and Speranza began her first lesson.
"First, kid, we are going to work with your balance. Meanwhile, we are going to practice with your Dying Will Flames." Tsuna looked at her curiously.
She sighs and continues, "Dying Will Flames. I prefer to call them soul flames, but everyone is entitled to call them how they want to. Here, Tsunayoshi, look at my hand."
She holds her hand out summons her Moon Flames. White flames bloom and shine almost shyly in her chubby hand.
At this exact moment, Tsuna realizes that Speranza isn't supposed to look like a toddler, but a beautiful enchantress. The Moon flames cause a second shadow of the toddler to appear, one that is mature, and looks adult-like. With long flowing hair, compared to her current small ponytail. He blinks himself out and exams the flames.
This happens every time she used her flames, and every time he'd be mesmerized. Eventually, Tsuna got over his nervousness just enough to ask just why the shadow appears.
He gets a small smile and "You'll learn eventually." from the baby.
"Dying Will Flames, it's an energy form refined by the soul, it can be used in battle. There are different types, but to make it easier to understand the majority of those who use it has classified them into two different parts. Flames of the Sky and Flames of the Earth, there are some other types of flames that can't be put under those categories, but I'll refrain from shedding light on them now."
She de-summons her flames and continues "So anyway, not much is know of the Flames of the Earth. The people who originally discovered it didn't really fight, but after an incident, they were forced away. They faked their deaths and moved to an island. Those flame are insanely rare and seem to only act about on one bloodline. Flames of the sky, on the other hand, are in everyone. Most people have them, whether or not they are flame-active- meaning they can use the flames, child- is another story. The Flames of the Sky are, of course, Sky which represents harmony; it is orange. Storm, which represents disintegration; it is red. Rain, which represents tranquility; blue. Sun, activation, yellow. Mist, represents construction, indigo. Cloud, propagation, purple. Lightning, hardening, it's green.
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So yeah. I'm back. Yo, Yo!
So this Part 2 of 5, a bit longer then I had vyed for, but that's okay.
Anyways, Speranza has never met reborn and the others before. If you read closely you'd've noticed that I wrote 'My sister's great-granddaughter Nana' which is Yuni's relationship to Luce's mother. Meaning Speranza is roughly 20-40 years older than the current Arcobalenos.
Yes, Bermuda and Speranza are acquainted.
Bermuda and the rest of the Vindice are slightly terrified of her; we all know the moon brings light to the night, so if enraged she can easily take down the Vindice due to their flames being null to her and hers having large effects on them.
She does have the capability to go into an adult form, but she would need some of Reborn's (As he is the arcobaleno sun) flames to make it happen.
Moon flame's attribute is Borrowed Light, meaning with any sort of light that is on her she allows her to use her flames. How strong her attacks are with her flames depends on how strong her light source is.
She'd basically be able to go as fast as the speed of light, but inertia is a thing and she'd die if she tries to go that fast while still being on planet earth. Then she can blind people, stun them, and almost every use you can think of with light.
Once again though, she can't use her flames without light and certain aspects can only be used with the help of sun flames, Reborn's Sun flames. Take a dimmed room for example, with that amount of light she can easily blind someone, but the room would go dark for a moment as she used the light in the room.
*Majority of the aspects of Moon Flames are based on real life, the moon doesn't produce light. It borrows it from the sun. The moon can easily be seen in the night sky, therefore night flames are null to Speranza. If you think it's OP can you tell me? I'm trying to attach as many downsides as I can to her flames without making them seems like a complete and utter curse to be bestowed with*
Moon flames, unlike other flames, can easily be rejuvenated as long as she looks at the moon. Meaning she has a necklace with high-quality photos of the moon in them and almost every room in her home/base has a painting or image of the moon.
Nana once joined the Varia and hid her hair and eye color with Moon Flames (Moon Flames mess with light, so was wrong with changing the particles that bounce off her?).
Nana went insane after Ietmitsu left and didn't call, as she relied heavily on his and Tsuna's flames to stay alive (Without Moon flames, what she was born with, her body would begin to die slowly. Using Tsuna's and Ietmitsu's flames allowed her to live a little longer, as the moon is in the sky). After Tsuna was sealed and Ietmistu left it was either to kill herself or to let her body deteriorate from the inside out, her sun flames not helping.
She didn't tell him about her flames or her past, because he didn't either.
She also thought him to be smarter and have spies posted here and there to inform him about his family so that when she died he'd be there to pick Tsuna up, as she didn't want Tsuna to be hurt and wasn't willing to watch her body die from the inside out she simply committed suicide.
So everything from her death, the cookbook, was planned and had thousands of back-ups ready to unconsciously be used.
Anyways, sorry for the Infodump. Didn't want to be hounded with too many questions.
Bye~Bye~